Nivel de conocimiento que tienen las madres sobre alimentación y nutrición en relación al estado nutricional de los niños escolares en la zona urbano marginal (San Eduardo)- Guayaquil en el período 2019- 2020.

Abstract

Malnutrition in schoolchildren is related to many social, environmental and psychological causes, marginal urban areas are the ones that represent the greatest risk at the national level, due to the scarcity of resources is the limitation of buying food that is essential at this stage , generating retardation in growth and intellectual development. The study aims to determine the relationship between the level of knowledge that mothers have about food and nutrition with the nutritional status of children aged 6 to 11 in the marginal urban San Eduardo area of the city of Guayaquil in the period 2019 - 2020. It has a cross-sectional, observational and correlational analytical approach. The survey was used as a tool to measure the level of knowledge of the mothers by applying the scale of the beams at the cut-off points for the qualification and the percentiles of the CDC to determine the nutritional status of the schoolchildren. The results are expressed in mean values ± standard deviation and percentages. With a sample of 70 children that meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria; The information was taken from the medical records. 56% were girls and 44% boys, aged 8 ± 1.82 years and BMI of 18.09 ± 3.56 kg / m2, where 17.14% are overweight, 14.28% are obese and 2.86% with low weight; The average size is 131.33 ± 10.76 cm, size / age, with a 12.86% height inappropriate for age, which reflects chronic malnutrition from the preschool stage.